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RADIO FRANKENSTEIN – The performance

In the second half of 2018, the italian neurosurgeon Prof. Canavero will perform the first human head transplant. Due to ethical issues and credibility, the Professor could not do the operation in Europe or America. For this reason, he accepted to do it in China. At his disposal, he will have a clinic in Harbin and a medical team of 150 doctors and nurses.

What makes you be yourself? What makes me be myself? Are you a human because you have a heart? Because you have eyes, a brain? Because you walk upright, ​because you mate with pleasure? Because you can read, write your name, remember, because you think you know you exist?

Are you this man because you have this knee, this pain in the shoulder, this heart, this love for this vanilla pudding, this faith in this God, this memory of this grandmother?

You will wake up as a new human being. (You will) resurrect from the decay of life, rejuvenated, beautified, much better, much newer, much more yes-you-can.

Egg cells, grown from your own skin for timeless offspring, planted in the brand new fallopian tubes, fertilized with sperm from your own genome, so that you can always only remain yourself, only you, only you, only yourself.

Do not be afraid: you will not die. We only cut parts of you, and replace them with new ones. We keep your soul, and transplant it into a new existence.

By the new production Radio Frankenstein, a theatrical performance produced in collaboration with the “Joint Research Centre” of the European Commission, hanging in the balance between art and science, the research is based on creation and manipulation of human body and its parts, taking into account the latest technological progress.

RADIO FRANKENSTEIN has been created for festival HOME Lugano and RESONANCES II Festival Milano 2017, exhibition with performances and art installations, made thanks to the collaboration between JRC scientists and international artists.